Compensatory adaptation as a unifying concept: Understanding how we respond to diet and lifestyle changes
Trying to understand each body response to each diet and lifestyle change, individually, is certainly a losing battle. …
Mart 21, 2018Trying to understand each body response to each diet and lifestyle change, individually, is certainly a losing battle. …
Mart 21, 2018We all evolved from one single-celled organism that lived billions of years ago. I don’t see why this is so hard for so…
Kasım 20, 2017Deary and colleagues (2007) conducted an interesting study on differences in intelligence scores among men and women. I…
Temmuz 28, 2016Let us assume that we collected data on the presence or absence of a trait (e.g., propensity toward risky behavior) in…
Ağustos 26, 2013As far as explaining natural phenomena, Darwin was one of the best theoretical researchers of all time. Yet, there were…
Kasım 12, 2012Biochemistry-based arguments can be very misleading. Yet, biochemistry can be extremely useful in the elucidation of di…
Nisan 16, 2012I find costly traits fascinating, even though they pose a serious challenge to the notion that living as we evolved to …
Ekim 10, 2011If you follow a paleo diet, you follow a diet that aims to be consistent with evolution. This is a theory that has unde…
Ekim 03, 2011The graph below (from Wikipedia) plots body fat percentage (BF) against body mass index (BMI) for men. The data is a bi…
Ağustos 29, 2011This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below. Typically this is done with p…
Mart 14, 2011